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WNBA draft 2024: Grading the Fever and every team’s night

A big part of getting a good grade on WNBA draft night is often in place months before, when the lottery order is decided. In the case of the 2024 draft, the Indiana Fever really couldn’t mess it up after they got the first pick: Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark would give them an A-plus. […]

Indiana Fever select Iowa’s Caitlin Clark No. 1 in 2024 WNBA draft

NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark is officially a pro. Clark, the record-breaking face of women’s college basketball, was selected No. 1 overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft Monday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The draft was held with fans for the first time since the 2014-16 iterations of the […]

Caitlin Clark WNBA predictions: Strengths, hurdles to expect

Caitlin Clark enters her final Big Ten tournament hoping to lead Iowa to its third consecutive title. In 2022, the Hawkeyes won the tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Last year, Iowa won the championship at Target Center in Minneapolis, site of this season’s tournament. The senior guard’s focus is fully on Iowa. But in […]

Fantasy women’s basketball roundtable: What is Caitlin Clark’s fantasy value as a rookie?

Expected by many to be the No. 1 overall selection by the Indiana Fever in the WNBA draft on April 15, the question is what should be expected out of Clark in fantasy women’s basketball this season? And with that, how high should she be picked? We turned to our fantasy experts Andre Snellings, Eric […]

Iowa’s Caitlin Clark declares for WNBA draft: What to know

The news we thought might not come until March or even April instead rocked the basketball world on the final day of leap-year February: Caitlin Clark will not return for a fifth season at Iowa, and instead will enter the WNBA draft. Clark made her announcement on Thursday afternoon via social media. She now has […]

Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier to start U.S.-based league in WNBA offseason

New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart and Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier told ESPN they are founding a new women’s basketball league to give the top WNBA players another option for playing domestically in the offseason once the league’s new prioritization rules go into full effect next season. The new league, called Unrivaled, would run […]

Which WNBA players will lead the league into the next generation? They’ve got next

Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird — who combined have been on four of the last seven WNBA title-winning teams — will retire at the end of the 2022 season. Briann January also has said this is her final season. Other legends could join them, or at the very least aren’t too far behind: Two-time MVP […]